I Retain my title as "A Dorky Gampa"

"Okay, you two can GO, but Samantha, you're going to clean up your ROOM when you get home don't forget!"
"YEAHHHH! We're go'in fish'nin, Gampa, COOL!"
We'd gotten a reprieve, by the warden(s),and in exchange, my Granddaughter, Sam and I, were being set free to go try a few new flies at the local lake behind the house.

"Gampa?"
"Yes, Sam?"
"Gampa, how, why, are YOU allowed to have such a messy awful room and YOU don't have to clean it up, before you can go fish'nin?"
"I don't have a "messy, awful room", Peanut! If you're talking about "our fly fishing room", what's messy about it? Besides, your Gramaw's afraid to go in there, for some reason, so she never tells me to clean it up. Plus, it's not messy to begin with."
Yes, it IS, Gampa! We couldn't even find my VEST, this morning, B'member? It was under some of your waders!"
"It wasn't "LOST" Sam, I was keeping it hidden, so no one would see are "secret flies". That's why I put them on YOUR patch and not mine, then covered up your vest??.. so no one would see these flies and maybe steal them!"
"Gampa, you're a dork, summ'er times".

Hmmmm. Well, regardless of my official status with my Granddaughter, we were on Cullaby Lake, trying out a new "type" fly that actually was thought up by and more or less "designed" by Sammy.
It's "creation" is the main reason my tying room "looks messy" at the moment.
It's a ridiculously easy fly to make/"tie"? and 90% of it comes from a bottle. Unlike a lot of flies, that I've come up with over the years though, THIS ONE has the fly made from a material from a bottle, instead of what went from a bottle, into the fly tier.

Sam has a craft paint called "Scribbles-Glittering Confetti-3D paint". While tying, Sam came to me with this bottle of her paint and told me, "Here, Gampa, try THIS on a hook!" Well, to make a long story, longer??? after an hour or so, of playing with this stuff and figuring out how to apply it to fly tying, Sammy and I came up with what we were pretty sure??. Would make a decent Crappie and Bluegill fly.

What we DIDN'T count on, however, was the effect it would have on TROUT!?

Pictured, below, is the largest of the 11 Trout we took on this "new fly". Sammy hooked it on her 3wt.she played it and I was "given permission to net it for her"!
We also took 9 Crappie and 3 Bluegill, using this fly!

Granted, it's sort of weird looking, but it evidently WORKS, which is about all one can ask for, from any fly "that comes from a bottle",
really!?

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...NDLAYERDRY.jpg

The "end result"
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f.../TROUT-A-2.jpg

wow.......nice story and fly and fish

Since there are pictures and a child invoved, it must be the truth. Well done, dorky Gampa.

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Originally Posted by Joe Valencic

Since there are pictures and a child invoved, it must be the truth. Well done, dorky Gampa.

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VERY NICE!!

Hey Joe,
Now we know who has the brains out west....and it ain't ol' "Dorky-poo"!! :rolleyes:
Mikey

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Originally Posted by ohiotuber

VERY NICE!!

Hey Joe,
Now we know who has the brains out west....and it ain't ol' "Dorky-poo"!! :rolleyes:
Mikey

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I dunno, Mikey. For a "dorky Grandpa", he sure has made a bunch of us fall in love with his grand-Sammy. :)


Ed, the Utterly Entranced

Nice story Paul.
I have a feeling that Sam is going to find that the world is full of "Dork's" when she attends the Michigan Fish-In!

Excellent! Great story, cool fly!
Are those metal barbell eyes, or 3D eyes covered with the Scribbles-Glittering Confetti-3D paint. That stuff isn't water soluble??

I can't wait to read your post whenever I see them they always brighten my day. It looks like you have your hands full good luck.

Nice story and pics Paul! I've had a lot of ideas come from a bottle, but I never used the bottle to tie flies... j/k

I would like to know more about this painting business though. It's another idea I never would have come up with and part of the main reason I love this site aside from the glittering personalities.

Paul -

Not sure, but I think flies like that are outlawed in Idaho, at least for adults. Sam will have to show us how it's done while we use more traditional methods.

John

P.S. Please warn Sam that most of our "end results" are a bit smaller than the ones she's used to.

"Thank You", to everyone! Sam was quite pleased to see, that other Fly Fish-er-nem liked her "fly idea" and her nice Trout.
Sam names all the fish she catches, I don't know why, (probably a "girl thing" as she says her Dorky Gampa doesn't unner-stan"?),so this one was immediately christened "Uncle Joe". ("that makes yummy bread and lives far away"-her words).
After she catches any fish and it's released, she waves to it, as it swims off and tells it, "Bye-Bye, (insert latest fish named, here)! Have a nice time!"

It also, appears, that Sammy's "family" is growing rapidly, as the MIFI draws closer. After catching this one, she asked me if "There are big fish'es like mine in Mish-Gin when we fish there, Gampa?"
I told her, that "I don't have a clue, Peanut, we'll have to wait and see, I guess!"
"I, bet, Uncle Jack or Uncle Mike knows Gampa! Tell, them we like big fish'es and maybe they know where some are, so we can catch them too!"

She very often reads posts here with me and those that make her laugh,or she notices that also post often in topics I'll be reading, she's begun to "adopt" as her "Uncle so and so".
Sam's only, 6 of course, so I didn't want to create the wrong impression in her young mind, about "the skills and talents" of "The Fish Kicker" and "The Master of The Mossy", so I kept quiet.

As to this "Gold Fish", (Sam's name for her new fly, she's not too original, but as least logical!?), and to answer a few questions on it....... I'll make a posting in the "Fly Tying" forum, when the photos come off the camera.

Great story Paul, that is why I like FAOL. For these stories. But being from Maine. I'm wondering why this fly would be outlawed in Idaho

I'm one too, but my g'daughter is a helluva fishin patrner. She throws a 3/4 wt like a prow & doesen't snivel about much except my cigars. One of these days I'm gonna loose her to some good lookin' guy but 'till then....? I love her to pieces!!! AIRBORNE

FB,

For a dork you are not so bad. ;)

Nice story. Nice fly! Nice fish!

This child has impeccable taste in whom she chooses to adopt. She has chosen the cream of the crop from NBOF. It's true that females are attracted to bad boyz, and old guys are an easy mark for cute kids. :p

Oh, and she might just be spoiled a little bit in Mish-Gin by her adopted uncles.

***************New "Fish - In" Rules************************
Or, "How to avoid Dorkdom"
1) Shave every day.
2) Bathe/shower everyday (twice if need be).
3) Slacks and shirts neatly pressed.
4) Hair combed, if you have enough to comb.
5) Socks that match (should be #!)
6) Manners that would make your mother proud.
7) Language of the type heard at church socials. (Ah Shucks is ok!)
8) No loud boasting. Being sorry you caught the big one is fine.
9) No falling down. especially in the evening!
10) Keep your feet off the furnature.
11) Always say Thank You or You are Welcome.
12) Let St. Paul take the heat while we all act like the perfect non-dorky gentelmen that we are.
13) Remember, 6 year olds have to go to bed early!!

Jack -

I suppose #14 is obvious ??? "After Sam is asleep, we can all be ourselves."

John

Yes John but they also tend to get up early too!!
We could also show up for dinner with jackets and ties while "The St Dork" sits there in a rumpled, sweaty, fish slimed shirt with zingers attached to his knife and fork.
Of course we could let her observe the G rated portions of the "Canoe Hatch" (yes there are portions with an "R" rating)! Then she would know where the real "Dorks" are and return St Paul to his proper exhaulted position as just plain Grampa!
"The Un-Dorking of St. Paul!". Hmmmmmmmmm.........!

The Aluminium Hatch Parade of the 4th of July is really something to watch. I can stand not fishing much on the day just to watch the show.